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Russia tests cutting itself off from the rest of the internet (www.techspot.com)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (5 children)

Lmao is russia gonna be even worse than China? At least China still somewhat have access to foreign websites (emphasis on the "somewhat").

Edit: Also, aren't telephones still working? Just call a friend/relative outside of the country to obtain information, or ask someone who has a friend/relative out of the country and ask for information on your behalf.

Have they banned mail yet? Try using mail lol.

They're gonna need to do a nationwide lockdown to stop all information.

(Funny thing is, no matter how hard China tries, I (I'm in the US) can still call relative in China and tell them all the info that the CCP has hidden from them)

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Also, aren't telephones still working? Just call a friend/relative outside of the country to obtain information, or ask someone who has a friend/relative and ask for information on your behalf.

In Putin Russia friend calls you! And by friend I mean your neighbor, and by call you I mean call the police to arrest you because you have dared to ask for information. Straight to the gulag for you!

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[–] nucleative 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The smart ones all know how to use VPNs as well. They know what's up.

Crazy thing is they only need to control the masses who are mostly uneducated or don't care enough to figure out what's going on. Turns out that even the USA has a massive group of the latter type.

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[–] asteriskeverything 8 points 4 days ago

No offense but this is incredibly short sighted and you're assuming the average person seeks out new information. We really don't and are more exposed to it in our daily lives of consumption. In 5, 10, 15 years it will increasingly become a problem being cut off from the outside world. Even now many believe the propaganda

[–] cheese_greater 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Is that right, you can just like call China, no Great Phone Firewall?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (8 children)

Yeah. My parents always calls and talk to my aunts and uncles in China. I mean you can say things like "Xi Jingping is stupid" and nothing would happen, but if you say "So lets kill Xi Jingping" that'd gonna get you in trouble (at least, my relative in China would, I'd be safe in the US).

Basically, the reason is, China still need to conduct trades and bussiness with the world, so they allow some level of freedom to keep people happy, but wechat groups shitting on Xi is gonna mysteriously disband. (people aren't gonna even gonna get arrested unless you're the group creator) A one to one conversation isn't gonna cause a protest unlike internet forums or group chats, that why (at least, why I think) they don't care about phone calls.

People have a misconception that China is nazi Germany, or East Germany, but its not that bad. (I mean its not "great" but its not "nazi germany", you get what I'm saying?)

Edit: Although, if something happened and there were to be nationwide protests in China, I'd bet they'll cut off phone calls and make an excuse like "riotors sabotaged the cell towers" or some BS like that.

Edit 2: Fun fact: Vietnam doesn't even block Google, the last time I checked. Some youtuber went to Vietnam and Google works somehow.

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[–] just_another_person 15 points 5 days ago (7 children)

DO IT

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago

No, let's not encourage this even as a joke.

All cutting Russia off from the rest of the internet will do is making them more radicalized and give even less opportunities for good ideas and good people to fight back.

That's why China does it. That's why Iran did it.

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[–] Gammelfisch 7 points 4 days ago (8 children)

Gladly, no more fucking Putin Bots.

[–] capital 7 points 4 days ago

Are you really that naive?

[–] MehBlah 9 points 4 days ago

I'm sure they will still be around.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

You know ips can be filtered to still have access right?

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[–] maplebar 6 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Good fucking riddance. (No offense cool innocent Russian people.)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

Good

Edit: actually not good. Disinformation agencies will still have access, so hexbear and .lm will remain. Only citizens will be punished and will be cut from non-prpaganda sources.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

Wait, so just like that, we're gonna lose access to lemmy.ml and hexbear? Oh no! Woe, woe unto us! How will we survive this?

[–] SlopppyEngineer 8 points 5 days ago (2 children)

They're really into cable cutting these days. Maybe we should help.

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